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Post by Gregg on Dec 19, 2006 17:27:10 GMT -5
Butter churn?
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Post by Gregg on Jan 28, 2007 19:25:24 GMT -5
Bob, My guess would be that there were 2 Flossies. Stranger things have happened. I know that Flossie and Gus Wille were a married couple. I also remember Bill Stott from our old neighborhood, but I never met his mom. By the way, wasn't the official name of our subdivision, "Elliot Addition?" Perhaps another "project" for Richard to unravel.
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Post by Gregg on Jan 28, 2007 13:16:23 GMT -5
I also thought it was pretty cool that the Van-Doby Trio, mentioned in the Sap's ad, contained 4 members!
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Post by Gregg on Jan 28, 2007 13:12:42 GMT -5
When my dad owned Smith Studio, at 409 5th St. during the 1950s, the owners of Wille Food Shop were Gus and Flossie Wille, who had a son named Naverne(sp?), who was a track star, I think at IU. I think the family lived somewhere north of 25th Street. Is there any chance that there is a "Flossie" mix-up? I'm positive of the identities of the proprietors, as I ate lunch there every day during my ninth-grade year at Central, which was 1959-1960. Mom and Dad also had coffee breaks and lunch there most of the time, since it was just a couple doors down from work.
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Post by Gregg on Jul 11, 2005 19:36:31 GMT -5
Nanc, I believe that the house in question(25th Street near Caldwell Place), was used as the North Christian Church during the 1950's and up until the time that the new one was built on National Rd. I think my mom said it was moved to Columbus from the World's Fair(or National Exposition), either in Chicago or St. Louis.
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Post by Gregg on Jun 13, 2005 13:31:32 GMT -5
David, Donner pool did have both afternoon and evening sessions when I was growing up. The pool probably closed around 9PM. The indoor concession stand was on the pool side of the north-south hallway. I think there was a "walk-up" window, accessable from the pool, but someone else will have to verify that. The concession stand near the playground equipment was run by a guy named Dolph Beck in the '50s and '60s. In addition to selling candybars, softdrinks,balsawood airplanes to lose up in the trees, etc., Mr. Beck also was in charge of checking out tetherball paddles and supervising the annual Easter Egg Hunt and watermelon feast.
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Post by Gregg on Sept 10, 2006 16:20:26 GMT -5
David, Ernie's Record Shop was on 3rd St, directly across from the Crump Theater. Tom Pickett's first music store was on the SE corner of 8th and Washington. He sold instruments and gave lessons, be he didn't sell records at that location. I started playing guitar in 1956 and took lessons for 2 years from Ernie Kerns at the 3rd Street store. After Tom moved to town, I took lessons from him for a couple years, and I began teaching for him during my 9th grade year. When we moved to the 1126 25th Street location, between One Hour Martinizing and Pasquale's, we added the record department. I still have scars on my hands from assembling all those wooden record display boxes with a straight-bladed screw driver,(they tend to slip!) In response to a comment of Bob's, on a trip to Columbus a couple years ago, I went with my cousin to pick up a repaired vaccuum cleaner on 25th St., and I'm pretty sure that was in the old Berry's House of Records store.
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Post by Gregg on Sept 9, 2006 20:41:52 GMT -5
Bob, That was Ernie's Record Shop, owned by Ernie Kerns.
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Post by Gregg on Jul 4, 2006 11:01:18 GMT -5
Bob, Do you remember the business at one time being called,"Hungate and Dibble?" That may have been in the late 1950s.
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Post by Gregg on Jan 23, 2006 16:54:54 GMT -5
When I was growing up in Columbus, I always confused the Fair Store with Woolworth's, AKA "The Little Dime Store." My question is: Which one had the HUGE cat ?? I think I remember that it always lay sprawled out on a table upstairs, but if it was as big as I recall, it could have hung out anywhere it pleased.
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Post by Gregg on Dec 5, 2005 11:11:11 GMT -5
Hayloft Frolic was hosted by "Uncle" Bob Hardy, and featured my old guitar teacher, Joe Edwards. I did a search of Bob last night, and it yielded some pretty interesting info.
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Post by Gregg on Dec 4, 2005 9:10:27 GMT -5
David, I'm sure someone else will be able to fill in more details, but I do recall there being a teen "dance party" type TV show, possibly originating on WTTV. It seems that I saw Bobby Helms as a guest once. He performed one of his early recordings, entitled, "Tennessee Rock-'n'-Roll." It is one of his more obscure songs. It may have even preceded "My Special Angel", which received world-wide acclaim. Not to drift too far off topic, but Martinsville's Bobby Helms pretty-much had the world by the tail at one point. His "Fraulein" set all sorts of records for time on the charts and number of weeks at the #1 spot. Of course, "Jingle Bell Rock" has become a perennial favorite. I think that with some savvy management, Bobby would have established himself a spot of much greater stature in musical history.
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Post by Gregg on Nov 30, 2005 9:58:39 GMT -5
Sometime between 1964 and 1968?
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Post by Gregg on Oct 7, 2005 12:18:54 GMT -5
Would the row of shops across 16th Street from, and just to the west of the Nugent home, qualify as a strip mall? They are probably nearly the same age as the shops on State Street.
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Post by Gregg on Aug 18, 2005 16:36:01 GMT -5
James K. I think it was Jim Shelton who had the noon-day show from the circle. Or it could have been Jack Morrow. He was also a WIBC dee-jay at the time Bill Baker was with the station.
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Post by Gregg on Aug 25, 2006 14:24:34 GMT -5
As I recall, most of the violence in the Golden Foundry strike was done by out-of-town thugs who were brought in by union organizers. Rumor at the time was that they were "imports" from Chicago. I also seem to recall that during one of the prolonged Cummins or Golden walkouts, Caterpillar, which was relatively new to the over-the-road diesel business, was able to pick up quite a few of Cummins' contracts.
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Post by Gregg on Sept 27, 2006 2:04:42 GMT -5
Richard, The photos from Westermeier's were probably taken by my dad. For quite a few years he did the Santa photos from there. For several weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas he and Mom would both work evenings and nights taking the pictures and getting the ,ames and addresses, and then spend hours at the studio getting the pics developed and packaged. It was a big part of our Christmas season. I don't recognize the Santa in your photos, but later he was replaced by Arnold "Smokey Joe" Miller.
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